PaleKittenVoid's Sweet Shop (AU Book)

'Regret'

(AU where Deku commits Suicide & Bakugou has a ton of regrets)

In this AU Kiri and Bakugou have a kid he's just turned five.

Their kid comes home from school and he's oddly quiet. Just before his parents ask what's wrong he starts talking.

"There's a quirkless kid at school.." He starts, "Everyone was being really mean to him & none of the teachers were doing anything."

Katsuki is frozen in shock, an old pain in his chest returning with a vengeance. He's already on the very of tears just from that one sentence.

Ejiro knows what this is doing to his husband, but they need to talk about this. He can do damage control after, "And what did you do about it?"

The kid went silent for a few seconds. Both parents began dreading the answer, "I Joined in of being mean.." Came the small reply, "I-I know that wasn't ok, bu- but I was so confused and I didn't k- know what to do!" He says, on the very of tears.

Ejiro is about to comfort their son and tell him what he should do, but Katsuki moves first. He crouches down in front of their kid before he speaks.

"When you go to school tomorrow you are going to apologize to that kid." He says in gentle, but stern tone, "After you do that you will be his friend. Don't let anyone try to push you away from him, not even yourself." Katsuki said. 'Don't do what I did.' was left unsaid, but it was heard loud and clear between the two adults.

The kid looks up at Katsuki and nods, whipping away the tears on his own face.

Katsuki is going to make sure this kid is going to have people that care about him, even if it's only a few.

Because if Katsuki had been there for Izuku he would still be alive.

Katsuki stood up and wiped his own eyes before taking a deep breath, "Go get cleaned up Izuru. I'm making Katsudon tonight."

(Should I make this a story? A series of one-shots? Something else? I was sad and this came to mind so-)